Exfoliation joints or sheet joints are surface-parallel fracture systems in rock, often leading to the erosion of concentric slabs. Commonly follow topography...
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hydraulics, exfoliation, unloading (release), and cooling. Different authors have proposed contradictory hypotheses for the same joint sets and types...
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Granite dome (redirect from Exfoliation dome)
decreases; as a result the rock fractures. These fractures are known as exfoliation joints, or sheet fractures, and form in onionlike patterns that are parallel...
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makes desquamation of the lens impossible. Desquamative gingivitis Exfoliation joint Moist desquamation Pityriasis—flaking of the skin Spalling Sunburn...
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described by strike and dip, including sedimentary bedding, fractures, faults, joints, cuestas, igneous dikes and sills, metamorphic foliation and fabric, etc...
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Thin-skinned deformation Thrust tectonics Fracturing Columnar jointing Dike Exfoliation joint Fissure Joint Vein Faulting Cataclasite Cataclastic rock Detachment...
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Fracture (geology) (section Joint types)
recognized in exfoliation joints. In joint systems where relatively long joints cut across the outcrop, the throughgoing joints act as master joints and the...
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chamber. Physical weathering occurs on a large scale in the form of exfoliation joints, which are the result of granite's expanding and fracturing as pressure...
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quarries, and for the formation of joints in rock outcrops. Retreat of an overlying glacier can also lead to exfoliation due to pressure release. This can...
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resulting in exfoliation (responsible for the rounded shape of the many domes in the park) and mass wasting following the numerous fracture joint planes (cracks;...
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